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Recent Examples of tow
Jillian Frankel, People.com, 15 May 2025
Video footage from the May 12 incident shows a sedan swerving across lanes as it is being towed by another car with a thin chain.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 14 May 2025
Laura Lu, Parents, 22 May 2025
After boarding an open-air, all-terrain vehicle, I was driven through a tropical forest to the top of a mountain on a narrow, improbably steep road with Gustavo Adolfo Morice, both my guide and the park's owner, in tow.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2025
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Verb
The chief officer swam to release a life raft from the sinking ship and towed it to the gathered group of survivors.
—Jillian Frankel, People.com, 15 May 2025
Video footage from the May 12 incident shows a sedan swerving across lanes as it is being towed by another car with a thin chain.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 14 May 2025
Noun
Best Stroller Designed to Grow With the Family With its collection of expansion accessories, the Vista V3 has more than 30 different configurations, giving parents the ability to transport their family from birth to three children in tow.
—Laura Lu, Parents, 22 May 2025
After boarding an open-air, all-terrain vehicle, I was driven through a tropical forest to the top of a mountain on a narrow, improbably steep road with Gustavo Adolfo Morice, both my guide and the park's owner, in tow.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tow
Verb
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Brands began to pull together resources to support refugees.—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2023
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The 13-minute performance will likely call for a healthy dose of vibrant, colored lighting to pull it all together.—
Kelly Allen,
House Beautiful,
10 Feb. 2023
Noun
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Marine Group officials wanted to demonstrate that converting similarly sized tugs from diesel to electric can be replicated by other companies, such as excursion boats and dinner cruises.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
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That, in turn, scuttled the main objective of the mission — having the Otter rendezvous with the Launcher tug down the road.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
21 May 2025
Verb
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The operation is massive: participants haul wagons and horses up to Nevada from all over California and coordinate nightly rest stops in shopping centers, ranches, even neighborhoods.—
Tina Li,
Sacbee.com,
7 June 2025
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The drop in foreign goods could mean fewer jobs at the warehouses that store them and the trucking companies that haul them around, wrote Michael Madowitz, an economist at the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute.—
Paul Wiseman,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
Noun
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The group Naples Pride filed the lawsuit to challenge restrictions such as a requirement that the drag show be held inside a building with a 200-person capacity and that minors be barred from attending.—
Jim Saunders,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 June 2025
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These establishments host a variety live music events, drag shows and visiting DJs.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado,
Sacbee.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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The new discovery, however, may throw a wrench into some long-standing theories of the planet’s existence.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
4 June 2025
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Tariffs have thrown a wrench into broader expectations; companies aren't quite sure how to fully respond.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
Noun
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The following evenings will see fleet-footed Mercury draw level with Jupiter, before rising above and away from the gas giant in the night sky as a result of the smaller world's tight orbit around the sun.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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One of the hotel’s biggest draw cards is Catseye Pool Club, the on-site restaurant helmed by culinary power duo Josh and Julie Niland (of Saint Peter and Fish Butchery fame).—
Alli Forde,
Travel + Leisure,
6 June 2025
Noun
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But in politics — as in life —there’s a fine line between being genuine and being a jerk.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Smoky, spicy jerk is also on the menu in the Pulled Jerk Pork & Coconut Shrimp appetizer at Eleanor’s at Sandals Grande Antigua.—
Sandals Resorts,
AFAR Media,
4 June 2025
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“Tow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tow. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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